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Am dual booting with XP, want to pull drive with Linux

Hi,

I am dual booting Linux with XP using two HD's. I want to pull out the HD containg the Linux OS (Mandrake 10.0) and put it in another machine. Do I have to erase the MBR in the first drive and if so how do I do that in order for the XP to boot directly for the drive that is left. I pulled out the Linux drive and didn't do anything to the MBR and all I got was a screen full of 99's.
Thank you kindly,
Chumley

Dual booting XP and Linux and MBR's

Yea, the 99's are because your boot loader (on the MBR) can't find the lilo stuff on the /boot partition.

If you have a windows 98 rescue disk, you can boot that to an a prompt and do an fdisk /mbr to restore the mbr to a windows mbr and it should boot XP ok.

Thanks for the info. I have reinstalled the drive I want to remove and things are working just fine. Could I pull up a command line in XP and do the fdisk /MBR, remove the Linux drive and still boot to XP? I would make an XP rescue disk before I did that. I have heard that sometimes when you do the fdisk /MBR it doesn't clear the first sector and then things won't boot properly. I have a program that will clear the first sector of the drive with XP and the /MBR on it, but I am hesitant to use it unless the fdisk /MBR doesn't work. What do you think?